"John" == John Lange john.lange@bighostbox.com writes:
John> At a recent MUUG meeting someone was asking about burning John> VCDs (Video CDs). I believe the consensus at the meeting was John> that burning under Linux was comprised of a hodge-podge of John> various command line tools for converting video formats and John> burning making it quite difficult at best.
John> I recently stumbled on the following software:
John> http://www.k3b.org/
John> which seems to bring everything under one roof and claims to John> do CD, VCD, and DVD burning all in one application (it does John> not appear to be just a GUI front end to command line John> tools).
John> However, I do not currently have a burner to test it with so John> I was hoping someone from the group could give it a whirl John> and report back on success?
Hey John,
I just have a regular CD burner, so I grabbed a few commercials in MPEG format, and tried out the VCD creation. I'm completely winging it, having just bought the DVD player a couple days ago, but the process seems to work OK. It helps to have some CD-RWs around to experiment, so you can just do a quick blank and try something else.
The K3B program does call others as well, such as cdrecord and cdrdao, and it expects (or at least hopes) to be able to run some of them as SUID root. It does handle the permissions setup for you though, which would be handy for the Linux newbies.
The interface is very pretty, but seems functional enough. Probably typical for KDE, I'm not sure.
Debian (testing) has packages for K3D and those programs it depends on, so installation was trivial as usual. What else? I dunno, I'll probably use it again.
Cheers, Tim